I Am Not Batman Research Paper
Martha Garner
Professor Austin
College Writing II
26 March 2013
Deferred Dreams Essay #2 Rough Drafts
When you take one look at a person what is it that you see? Is it there outfit, their hair, or do you not even see them at all because you let the things you hear not allow you to do so. Although America is filled with different ethnicity of people and people who face different financial, social, and mental differences one thing that we all can relate to is having a dream. Yet as we transform into a toddler to an adult are dreams may shift from wanting to be an epitome of a princess to the president of the United States. But nevertheless it’s a dream. And dreams today are the driving force of America. But what if out of nowhere you realized …show more content…
your dream is just too far out of your reach. You realize that there no way you can achieve this any time soon. Do you just stop? Do you just follow the same path as someone before you? Or do you just find an easy way out? Both plays “I Am Not Batman” by Marco Ramirez and “This Property Is Condemned” by Tennessee Williams relate to each other on so many levels. Each character has a dream and due to their family situation they have trouble achieving them. But the crazy thing is no one is stopping them but their selves.
Tennessee Williams’s play “This Property is Condemned” expresses that hard times and non-pleasurable feelings will cause a person to do things they never imagined themselves doing in the first place. In addition, I state this because Alva who is Willie’s older sister slept with all the railroad men, including engineers, firemen, and conductors. Basically any man who came across there little boarding house, she slept with, according to her little sister. But I believe it wasn’t for self-pleasure, in fact I believe that Alva saw this as one of the easiest ways to provide for her and her little sister Willie since there mother ran out on them and their father shortly after did the same. For instance Willie tells Tom “What a girl needs to get along is social training. I learned all that from my sister Alva. She had a wonderful popularity with the roadmen” (Williams 1085). This is the evidence from the story that shows that Alva slept around with many men. Furthermore Willie goes on to say “They all disappeared. Afraid that they might get stuck for expenses I guess” (Williams 1087). This helps me support my idea that the guys were giving Alva things for her expenses to sleep with her. And because of that when Alva died most of the men scattered afraid that they would have to continue to help provide for the needs of Willie. Plus, Willie admits to Tom that she had done the same with one of the roadmen as well. And not until Toms asked Willie why she doesn’t do the same for him, does she go on to say that the only reason she slept with the roadman was because she was feeling lonely. On page 1088 there a conversation between Tom and Willie that portrays this. Tom states “Why don’t you do this for me?” Willie replies “What? Put glue on your compound fracture?” Tom says “Naw. What you did for Frank Waters.” And Willies answers “Because I was lonesome then an’ I’m not lonesome now. You can tell Frank Waters that. Tell him that I inherited all my sister beaux. I go out steady with men in responsible jobs.”
To add on to this, Willie described Alva’s death as the opposite from the scenes in the movies and she explained that everyone disappeared and left Alva during her hardest times. She compared it to rats from a sinking ship. This explanation only leads me to feel that Alva’s death was premature. And because of this her death would only lead Willie to do wrong things.
On the other hand this play emphasizes that you have to be careful what you do in front of younger children or in other word people who look up to you because no matter what there always watching waiting to repeat what you just done. Alva was more than an older sister to Alva, she was Willies role model. Willie thought everything her older sister did and say was remarkable. She refers to her sister as beautiful. And this is why it was so easy for Willie to duplicate the actions of her sister. She didn’t see her sister promiscuous, self-destruction actions as being such; instead she viewed it in a positive way. And the fact that Alva ways here sister was enough reasons for her to feel that way. “This Property Is Condemned” by Tennessee Williams this play is a symbol for young girls in America who have dreams but they are deferred because they are being influencing heavy by guardians who aren’t going towards the right path.
The article “The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams” by Thomas R. Atkins explains that Tennessee Williams was no stranger from deferred dreams himself. In this article it shows that Tennessee’s mother gave him a hard time when it came to accepting him and his literature. It states “I am sorry you didn’t like the plays, wrote Tennessee to his mother in September 1941. He was referring to his one-acts “This Property is Condemned” and: At Liberty” which appeared in American Scenes. Williams mother considered these early plays to be ugly and indecent” (Atkins 1). In contrast, this article also shows that even though his dream of his mother acceptance never really came true he never stopped that or anything from keeping him doing what he loved to do. The article states that “After the failed production, Williams kept rewriting the script until in 1957, it reached Broadway under the title Orpheus descending and in 1960 his drama “The Fugitive Kind” was released” (Atkins 2). Nevertheless, his dream of being accepted as being gay, his mother’s approval, and accepting his sisters disorder always came back to haunt him. On page 2 of the article it supports this by stating “What Williams called his blue devils continued to torment him, despite the success of his plays. With money rolling in at a rate of a thousand a week, he described his emotional state in February 1945, as neither elated nor depressed, just sort of dissociated from everything past and future.” This just shows that Tennessee Williams shares a lot in common with the main character Willie from his play “This Property is Condemned.” They both let their family circumstance also known to be deferred dreams effect their ability to having unlimited success. This only goes to prove that no matter how long you had a dream any short term situation has the ability to hinder you from chasing that. But it’s up to you not to allow that to take place.
In comparison, the play “I Am Not Batman” by Marco Ramirez shows similar qualities as well.
It deals with a boy who has a dream to save his alcoholic father so that he can relive the dream of having a father and son relationship. Furthermore, the boy in the play lives in a troubled neighborhood so he also has a dream to reduce if not stop the violence in his surrounding environment. As relation to the title “I Am Not Batman” you can infer that he is suffering from doubt that his dreams will every come true because he feels like his dreams are too big for him to handle. In addition, he does feel like he knows what to do as his first step to accomplishing these dreams of him. That’s why he compares himself to not being Batman. Just like Willie from “This Property Is Condemned” they both are face with having to fix the mess that their family left them to solve. Not once did their family consider how their action may have hindered them. Also in comparison to the boy and Willie no matter what they still loved and cared for their family even through all the stuff they put them through. Willie adores her sister to the point where she was to be just like her no matter if it brings a negative look to her and the boy still wants to replenish his relationship with his father, even though his father could clearly careless as he rather enjoy time with liquor than time with his
son. As a result, the next time you lay eye on a person don’t like your first judgment be about their physical appearance, or let outside sources interfere with your own interpretation of that person. For that person, may be much bigger than that. They may be filled with a dream but don’t know how to express it, or what to do to achieve it. And yes, sometimes a dream may be too big for you to achieve it all alone but that doesn’t mean you stop dreaming it. Dreams have the ability to connect to more than one person at a time. So you never know if that same person you prejudged will soon be your partner. First impressions may be your last impressions, but your first dream isn’t always your last!
Professor Austin
College Writing II
26 March 2013
Deferred Dreams Essay #2 Rough Drafts
When you take one look at a person what is it that you see? Is it there outfit, their hair, or do you not even see them at all because you let the things you hear not allow you to do so. Although America is filled with different ethnicity of people and people who face different financial, social, and mental differences one thing that we all can relate to is having a dream. Yet as we transform into a toddler to an adult are dreams may shift from wanting to be an epitome of a princess to the president of the United States. But nevertheless it’s a dream. And dreams today are the driving force of America. But what if out of nowhere you realized …show more content…
your dream is just too far out of your reach. You realize that there no way you can achieve this any time soon. Do you just stop? Do you just follow the same path as someone before you? Or do you just find an easy way out? Both plays “I Am Not Batman” by Marco Ramirez and “This Property Is Condemned” by Tennessee Williams relate to each other on so many levels. Each character has a dream and due to their family situation they have trouble achieving them. But the crazy thing is no one is stopping them but their selves.
Tennessee Williams’s play “This Property is Condemned” expresses that hard times and non-pleasurable feelings will cause a person to do things they never imagined themselves doing in the first place. In addition, I state this because Alva who is Willie’s older sister slept with all the railroad men, including engineers, firemen, and conductors. Basically any man who came across there little boarding house, she slept with, according to her little sister. But I believe it wasn’t for self-pleasure, in fact I believe that Alva saw this as one of the easiest ways to provide for her and her little sister Willie since there mother ran out on them and their father shortly after did the same. For instance Willie tells Tom “What a girl needs to get along is social training. I learned all that from my sister Alva. She had a wonderful popularity with the roadmen” (Williams 1085). This is the evidence from the story that shows that Alva slept around with many men. Furthermore Willie goes on to say “They all disappeared. Afraid that they might get stuck for expenses I guess” (Williams 1087). This helps me support my idea that the guys were giving Alva things for her expenses to sleep with her. And because of that when Alva died most of the men scattered afraid that they would have to continue to help provide for the needs of Willie. Plus, Willie admits to Tom that she had done the same with one of the roadmen as well. And not until Toms asked Willie why she doesn’t do the same for him, does she go on to say that the only reason she slept with the roadman was because she was feeling lonely. On page 1088 there a conversation between Tom and Willie that portrays this. Tom states “Why don’t you do this for me?” Willie replies “What? Put glue on your compound fracture?” Tom says “Naw. What you did for Frank Waters.” And Willies answers “Because I was lonesome then an’ I’m not lonesome now. You can tell Frank Waters that. Tell him that I inherited all my sister beaux. I go out steady with men in responsible jobs.”
To add on to this, Willie described Alva’s death as the opposite from the scenes in the movies and she explained that everyone disappeared and left Alva during her hardest times. She compared it to rats from a sinking ship. This explanation only leads me to feel that Alva’s death was premature. And because of this her death would only lead Willie to do wrong things.
On the other hand this play emphasizes that you have to be careful what you do in front of younger children or in other word people who look up to you because no matter what there always watching waiting to repeat what you just done. Alva was more than an older sister to Alva, she was Willies role model. Willie thought everything her older sister did and say was remarkable. She refers to her sister as beautiful. And this is why it was so easy for Willie to duplicate the actions of her sister. She didn’t see her sister promiscuous, self-destruction actions as being such; instead she viewed it in a positive way. And the fact that Alva ways here sister was enough reasons for her to feel that way. “This Property Is Condemned” by Tennessee Williams this play is a symbol for young girls in America who have dreams but they are deferred because they are being influencing heavy by guardians who aren’t going towards the right path.
The article “The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams” by Thomas R. Atkins explains that Tennessee Williams was no stranger from deferred dreams himself. In this article it shows that Tennessee’s mother gave him a hard time when it came to accepting him and his literature. It states “I am sorry you didn’t like the plays, wrote Tennessee to his mother in September 1941. He was referring to his one-acts “This Property is Condemned” and: At Liberty” which appeared in American Scenes. Williams mother considered these early plays to be ugly and indecent” (Atkins 1). In contrast, this article also shows that even though his dream of his mother acceptance never really came true he never stopped that or anything from keeping him doing what he loved to do. The article states that “After the failed production, Williams kept rewriting the script until in 1957, it reached Broadway under the title Orpheus descending and in 1960 his drama “The Fugitive Kind” was released” (Atkins 2). Nevertheless, his dream of being accepted as being gay, his mother’s approval, and accepting his sisters disorder always came back to haunt him. On page 2 of the article it supports this by stating “What Williams called his blue devils continued to torment him, despite the success of his plays. With money rolling in at a rate of a thousand a week, he described his emotional state in February 1945, as neither elated nor depressed, just sort of dissociated from everything past and future.” This just shows that Tennessee Williams shares a lot in common with the main character Willie from his play “This Property is Condemned.” They both let their family circumstance also known to be deferred dreams effect their ability to having unlimited success. This only goes to prove that no matter how long you had a dream any short term situation has the ability to hinder you from chasing that. But it’s up to you not to allow that to take place.
In comparison, the play “I Am Not Batman” by Marco Ramirez shows similar qualities as well.
It deals with a boy who has a dream to save his alcoholic father so that he can relive the dream of having a father and son relationship. Furthermore, the boy in the play lives in a troubled neighborhood so he also has a dream to reduce if not stop the violence in his surrounding environment. As relation to the title “I Am Not Batman” you can infer that he is suffering from doubt that his dreams will every come true because he feels like his dreams are too big for him to handle. In addition, he does feel like he knows what to do as his first step to accomplishing these dreams of him. That’s why he compares himself to not being Batman. Just like Willie from “This Property Is Condemned” they both are face with having to fix the mess that their family left them to solve. Not once did their family consider how their action may have hindered them. Also in comparison to the boy and Willie no matter what they still loved and cared for their family even through all the stuff they put them through. Willie adores her sister to the point where she was to be just like her no matter if it brings a negative look to her and the boy still wants to replenish his relationship with his father, even though his father could clearly careless as he rather enjoy time with liquor than time with his
son. As a result, the next time you lay eye on a person don’t like your first judgment be about their physical appearance, or let outside sources interfere with your own interpretation of that person. For that person, may be much bigger than that. They may be filled with a dream but don’t know how to express it, or what to do to achieve it. And yes, sometimes a dream may be too big for you to achieve it all alone but that doesn’t mean you stop dreaming it. Dreams have the ability to connect to more than one person at a time. So you never know if that same person you prejudged will soon be your partner. First impressions may be your last impressions, but your first dream isn’t always your last!